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What is a phospholipid?

What is a phospholipid? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (chemistry) any lipid, such as lecithin or cephalin, consisting of a diglyceride combined with a phosphate group and a simple organic molecule such as choline or ethanolamine; they are important constituents of biological membranes
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This enabled us to probe the ability of the protein to bind to different phospholipid molecules.
To prepare multilamellar lipid dispersions, aliquots of CHCl 3 stock solutions of phospholipid and sterol were mixed in the appropriate quantities.
In our model a phospholipid molecule is represented by a pair of nearest-neighbor acyl chains, linked covalently to each other.
In the first system, the phospholipid molecules were solvated by 6560 SPC water molecules.
In phospholipid membranes these loosely associated water molecules are in fast exchange with the bulk water phase.
The second step involves binding of phospholipid molecules in the active site of the adsorbed enzyme.

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